Bag and twine holder



(No Model.)

Patented Dec. 7,1880.

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FREDERIC P. SHERMAN, OF KINGSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

BAG AND TWINE HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 235,103, dated December '7, 1880.

Application filed June 7, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREnERIc P. SHERMAN, of Kingston, of the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bag and Twine Holders; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a side elevation, Fig. 2 an end view, and Figs. 3 and 4 vertical sections, of the article embodying. my invention, the nature of which is defined in the claims hereinafter presented.

The said article is designed for use on the counter of a shop-keeper, grocer, or dealer in small wares, and is to sustain several packs of paper bags of different sizes and also to hold a ball or balls of twine, as generally employed for tying any of such bags, on it having been filled or charged with any matter or matters.

In the drawings, A represents a square baseboard and B a flat post or standard erected on such board and astraddle of a box, 0, and at its middle, the said box projecting in opposite directions from the standard and having a cover, D,.to slide through it and into rabbets or grooves a, a in the opposite sides of the box. A partition, 1), extending across the box at its middle, divides its internal space into two compartments, 0 a, each of which has made through its outer end and near the upper edge thereof a hole or mouth, 01, having a slot or passage, 0, leading down into it from such edge. The said slot enables twine proceeding from a ball thereof in the compartment 0 to be readily laid in the mouth (I, through which such twine is to be drawn from the ball as occasion may require.

The post or standard I provide on one or on each side of it with a series of hooks, f, each of them having hitched upon it a-T-shaped eye, g, made of a piece of wire bent in manner as represented. Each of such eyes is to support a pack of the paper bags by being run through it, so as to cause its several bags, near their mouths, to hang from the eye. The bags of each pack are to be supposed to be of one size, and difier in size from those of any other of the packs applied to the standard on one side of it.

As a grocer or shop-keeper may need a bag of either size, he seizes it and pulls it from its pack, and, having put into the bag any article or matter, he has at hand the twine for tying the bag.

The bag and twine holder, as represented, is for use by two persons at a counter, it being placed thereon between them, there being to each side of the standard bag-supporting devices, as described.

Ihen the cover is in place it extends over both of the slots 0, so as to prevent the twines from working upward through and out of them.

The cover can be moved or drawn endwise in either direction, lengthwise of it, in its su taming-grooves.

I claim as my invention as follows, viz:

1. The combination of the standard having one or more series of bag attachments, as described, with a twine-holder having one or more apartments within it for holding twine, and arranged with such standard,as set forth.

2. The twine-holder and its cover, combined and arranged, as described, with the standard provided with one or more series of bag attachments, as set forth.

FREDERIO P. SHERMAN.

\Vitnesses SARAH F. SHERMAN, AzEL H. SAMPsoN. 

